Epilepsy and Sleep: An Educational Overview
Important: Komori does not identify or classify seizures, and Komori is not for epilepsy patients. Epilepsy and SUDEP research is conducted under a separate research collaboration with the University of Virginia Neurology team (Dr. Mark Quigg) under amended IRB 302295 — research-gated and not commercially available. Households living with epilepsy should consult a neurologist and use FDA-cleared devices designed for that purpose.
This page is an educational overview of nighttime epilepsy considerations and where home tools fit alongside neurologist-directed care. It is not a product pitch and it is not medical advice.
Komori is a general wellness device in development. It is not FDA-cleared, not designed for clinical epilepsy use, and not intended to diagnose, treat, prevent, or cure any condition. For care, please consult a neurologist and consider FDA-cleared options.
The research portal is intended for clinicians and researchers working with the UVA collaboration, not for epilepsy patients or their families.
How Komori Works
Sleep Comfortably
No wearables to remember and no cameras pointed at the bed. The contactless sensor is designed to work through blankets above the bed.
Record Position & Movement
Komori is designed to record body position, movement patterns, and bedroom environment (ambient temperature, humidity) overnight. The device does not identify, classify, or alert on seizure activity.
Review Your Own Data
Komori is designed so you can export your own data and, if you choose, share it with your healthcare provider. Komori is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat, or prevent any condition.
What You'll Discover
Movement Awareness
Komori is designed to track movement awareness through the night for personal review. The device does not detect, diagnose, or treat any condition — including seizures.
Position & Restlessness Patterns
Komori is designed to record body position and restlessness patterns over the course of a night. Personal patterns may be worth discussing with a healthcare provider.
Bed Presence Awareness
Komori is designed to record bed presence as ambient context for personal, morning-after review. Not a real-time medical or safety alert.
Bedroom Environment
Komori is designed to record ambient temperature and humidity trends in the bedroom for personal review.
Personal Journal
Komori is designed to let you keep an optional journal alongside overnight position and environment data for personal review.
Exportable Personal Data
Komori is designed so you can export your own data and share it with your healthcare provider if you choose to.
Privacy by Design
No camera, no video. The on-device microphone only records audio features (not raw audio). Raw audio is not kept anywhere unless you explicitly ask for it.
Not a Seizure Device
Komori does not identify or classify seizures and is not designed for epilepsy clinical use. Households living with epilepsy should consult a neurologist and use FDA-cleared seizure-detection devices.
A Brief Overview of Epilepsy
The information below is educational and is not a substitute for evaluation by a neurologist. Komori is not part of any household epilepsy care pathway.
What Epilepsy Is
Epilepsy is a chronic neurological condition characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures. It has many causes and many sub-types (tonic-clonic, absence, myoclonic, focal, and more). It is diagnosed clinically by a neurologist.
Who Manages It
Care is directed by a neurologist or epileptologist. Diagnosis and seizure characterization rely on clinical history and clinical tools such as EEG — not on consumer-grade ambient devices.
Where to Learn More
The Epilepsy Foundation and Danny Did Foundation publish public educational resources about epilepsy, SUDEP risk, and FDA-cleared detection devices. For care decisions, consult a qualified clinician.
For diagnosis, treatment, or management of epilepsy or any medical condition, speak with a qualified neurologist. FDA-cleared seizure-detection devices exist; Komori is not one of them.
An Example Night Review
Illustrative only — a mock of how a personal morning-after summary may look.
Last Night · Mon Mar 8
8h 07m total · 99% in-bed
Position Breakdown
Night Timeline
Komori is designed to surface a personal overview of position, bed presence, and movement patterns from the night for morning-after review. The data is for personal review and, optionally, for sharing with a healthcare provider. Komori does not identify or classify seizures, is not a medical device, and does not diagnose, treat, or prevent any condition.
UVA Neurology Research Portal — Coming Soon
Komori's epilepsy and SUDEP work is conducted as a research collaboration with the University of Virginia Neurology team (Dr. Mark Quigg) under amended IRB 302295. That work is research-gated and is not part of any commercial product offering.
A research portal for clinicians and academic researchers working with the UVA collaboration is in development. The portal is not intended for epilepsy patients or their families and will not provide clinical guidance.
If you live with epilepsy, please consult a neurologist and consider FDA-cleared seizure-detection devices.
Readers this content may help
This is general background reading and is not personalized medical advice. Komori is not for epilepsy patients.
Curious Readers
People exploring general background on nighttime epilepsy considerations and the categories of FDA-cleared tools that exist.
Researchers
Academic researchers studying sleep, epilepsy, and SUDEP — relevant context for the UVA Neurology collaboration.
Clinicians
Neurologists and clinicians curious about contactless approaches to nighttime data collection within a research-only context.
Family Members
Family members of someone living with epilepsy looking for general educational reading. For care decisions, please consult a neurologist.
This is personal.
Dovy Paukstys
Founder
My twin boys got sepsis in the NICU. One of them was infected three times — the only documented case. All I wanted was to know they were okay.
Those nights changed everything for me. I couldn't stop thinking about how helpless it felt to not know what was happening while someone you love is sleeping. That question — "are they okay right now?" — never really left me. It followed me through 20 years of building data systems, through designing Owlet's data pipeline, through leading technology at SAMi Alert. Every role taught me something, but the question was always the same.
"I built Komori for families like mine. Families who lie awake wondering."
Families searching for insights that lead to answers. You spend a third of your life asleep. The night has answers. But you can't act on what you can't see.
Komori opens that black box. 60GHz radar that sees through blankets. No camera. No wearable. No video. Just data nobody's been able to give you before.
I designed every system. Every algorithm. This isn't a side project. It's the reason I learned everything I know.
Former Senior Solution Architect at Owlet Baby Care · Fractional CTO of SAMi Alert · 20 years in data engineering
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